Buffet is a test distribution framework for Ruby. This means that it distributes your tests across all your worker machines and runs them in parallel, which significantly speeds up the testing cycle.
Buffet is in an alpha state. It should work, but there may be some rough patches. Feel free to send questions, or better, pull requests, my way.
Install: gem install buffet-gem --pre
Create a user named 'buffet' on each host; Buffet can take care of the rest.
Run tests: buffet for the command line, or buffet-web. Your choice.
Help: buffet --help.
Settings: buffet --settings.
Continuous integration: buffet --watch.
If you have databases that need to be refreshed every time you test: Create a file called db_setup to do this, and put it in [your repo]/bin. Be sure that this script also rests the databases on the hosts as well.
The CLI currently has more options than the web interface. Working on this.
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:243:in mkdir': Permission denied - /home/(some user) (Errno::EACCES)`
This means that somehow bundle install was called, but is using args found on the master machine, not the host. (Yes, the error is very obscure..)
There are a few ways to solve this problem:
- You can manually solve this by sshing in and calling bundle install.
- You can examine the source / bug me to figure out why things are out of order, then fix them.
unknown database 'buffet_causes'
You should precede all bundle database commands with RAILS_ENV=test.
- Use a git wrapper, not inline shell commands.